Word: diversionism
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Not to scare those seeking light diversion, it must be mentioned that the program also included-cultural uplift. The opera Die Meisterslinger, composed by the Proposition's music director, John Forster, collated musical strains lifted from numerous operas. The work concerns a family tragically victimized by circumstance and a villainous...
Many of the nation's leading repertory groups offer theatrical diversion throughout the summer.
Day after day, night after night, U.S. B-52s rumbled over the hills outside the Marine perimeter while the garrison fought off probes and small infantry assaults. By the end of the 77-day siege, the bombers had dropped more than 100,000 tons of explosives, about one-sixth the...
Simple Choice. Coming immediately in the wake of the revolt that rocked France, the campaigning was understandably intense and emotional. In the closing days, the party of General Charles de Gaulle, which had concentrated its attacks on the Communists, shifted some of its criticism to the centrists, who presented themselves...
The general air in this second volume of his autobiography is one of diversion rather than dedication, the method more anecdotal than analytical; the result is a rather pleasurable belles-lettres excursion into nostalgia, not a profound exercise in self-revelation. Taken as such, it is rarely dull. In this...